Top 10 Thrash Albums (secular)

Two things I love: lists and thrash metal. I was thinking through my favorite thrash metal albums and came up with a top 10. There's no particular order and I'll do one for Christian thrash separately. Here you go:

And Justice for All
Master of Puppets
Ride the Lightning
Spreading the Disease
Among the Living
Persistence of Time
Rust in Peace
Seasons in the Abyss 
Never Neverland
Practice What You Preach 

Honorable mentions: Time Does Not Heal, The Years of Decay, Horrorscope, The New Order

What say ye?

O.K., well I am not saying these are the best or most influential thrash albums, they are just some personal favorites.  
In no particular order:

1.  Testament - The Legacy
2.  Coroner - Mental Vortex
3.  Exodus - Bonded By Blood
4.  Slayer - Show No Mercy
5.  Metallica - Master Of Puppets
6.  Voi Vod - Killing Technology
7.  Sodom - Agent Orange
8.  Sentinel Beast - Depths of Death 
9.  Nasty Savage - Indulgence
10. Sepultura - Arise

Honorable Mentions:

11.  Megadeth - Killing Is My Business....
12.  Anthrax - Fistful of Metal
13.  Artillery - By Inheritance
14.  Flotsam & Jetsom - Doomsday For The Deceiver
15.  Paradox - Heresy
16.  Toxic - Think This
17.  Testament - Souls of Black
18.  Dark Angel - We Have Arrived
19.  Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
20.  Hades - Resisting Success

Good call on Arise and Mental Vortex!

Forbidden  - Twisted Into Form
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Devastation - Idolatry
Testament - Practice What you Preach
Viking - Man of Straw
Mekong Delta - Wanderer on the Edge of Time
Anacrusis - Manic Impressions

Honorable Metions

Droid - Terrestrial Mutations
Laaz Rocket - Annihilation Principal
Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
Sacrifice - Soldier of Fortune
Whiplash - Power and Pain

I was always more int o the Christian Thrash side of things but enjoyed and still enjoyed these and others.

Ooh. Good call on Annihilation Principle and Idolatry

Megadeth-RIP  This is the greatest thrash album ever, no contest.
Metallica-MoP
Testament-Practice What you Preach
Overkill-Immortalis
Megadeth-Peace Sells
Metallica-Ride the Lightning
Laaz Rockit-Know Your Enemy
Flotsam and Jetsam-Quatro
Anthrax-Sound of White Noise
Testament-Dark Roots of Earth
Toxic-World Circus
Sepultura-Beneathe the Remains
Mortal Sin-Mayhemic Destruction
Sodom-Agent Orange
Atrophy-Socialized Hate
Annihilator-Waking the Fury

Is that 10?

Plenty of good ones already mentioned, but I think Death Angel needs a little more love, still releasing good stuff.
Death Angel - Act III

I like Act III, but aside from a song here and there I haven’t been able to get into their recent stuff. I remember everybody raving about The Dream Calls for Blood, but I found it kind of dull outside of a couple of songs.

I'm with PH, they are just okay for the most part.

My choice would be 
1. Sodom Agent Orange
2. Death Angel self titled
3. Anthrax Among The Living 
4. Freakings Gladiator 
5. Sepultura Schizophrenia 
6. Grave Forsaken Reap What You Sow
7. Heavenly Kingdom Nature In Fury
8. Iced Earth The Dark Saga
9. Omen The Curse
10. Flotsam And Jetsom NPFD

Pethead wrote:Two things I love: lists and thrash metal. I was thinking through my favorite thrash metal albums and came up with a top 10. There's no particular order and I'll do one for Christian thrash separately. Here you go:

And Justice for All
Master of Puppets
Ride the Lightning
Spreading the Disease
Among the Living
Persistence of Time
Rust in Peace
Seasons in the Abyss 
Never Neverland
Practice What You Preach 

Honorable mentions: Time Does Not Heal, The Years of Decay, Horrorscope, The New Order

What say ye?

Nice list! 

We have very similar taste in Thrash.

No particular order…

Metallica - Ride the Lightning 
Sepultura - Arise
Overkill - The Years of Decay
Testament - Practice What You Preach
Suicidal Tendencies - Lights Camera Revolution 
Sacred Reich - The American Way 
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Flotsam and Jetsam - No Place for Disgrace 
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss

Bonus:
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Megadeth - Peace Sells 
Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
Anthrax - Persistence of Time
Annihilator - Alice in Hell
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Prong - Beg to Differ
Overkill - Horrorscope
Slayer - South of Heaven

I wonder that nobody mentioned Metallica's first:
"Kill em all". Since I think it must be mentioned, I do it now. I also think it is their best Thrash metal alubum, I even rate it before MoP and RtL.
And I always think that Motorhead was somehow a precursor of Thrash, though they might not really fit. But take the album "Overkill". It is from the 70ies, however there is quite a lot of Thrash in I think- though also 70ies flair...Perpaps the musicians (like me) here can find some similarities between Motorhead and for example Metallica. Have you ever played "Ace of Spades" and Whiplash on guitar? Not so much different. However, I would not say that Metallica cribbed it, it sounds too much different at the whole, however, I think Motorhead's influence on bands like Metallica and the Thrash Metal in general is at hand - in this was, they are a bit underrated since they somehow pushed the Metal.

This going to be hard because I know more Christian Thrash than Secular.

1. ...And Justice For All - Metallica
The best thrash album of all time. Frayed Ends Of Sanity is very underrated.

RAZOR THIN GAP

2. Master Of Puppets - Metallica
Metallica really bumped it up with this album. Leper Messiah is very underrated.

3. Rust In Peace - Megadeth
Marty Friedman and Dave Mustaine. Nuff said. Love Holy Wars.

4. Countdown To Extinction - Megadeth
Less thrashy then RIP but just as amazing. Sweating Bullets is my fav.

5. 72 Seasons - Metallica
Metallica did an amazing job with this album. Screaming Suicide and Too Far Gone? are 10/10 songs. Inamorata is the best on the album for sure 11/10.

6. Practice What You Preach - Testament
I didn't really get into Testament but this album is awesome.

7. Death Magnetic - Metallica
Lots of Metallica on this list. This album is underrated. Judas Kiss and The Day That Never Comes are amazing songs.

8. United Abominations - Megadeth
A good album. Washington Is Next is an amazing song.

9. Reign In Blood - Slayer
The only reason this is on here is because I'm running out of albums lol.

10. Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden
I know this isn't really thrash and that's why it's at the bottom. But a freaking incredible album.